Cupcakes for Miriam's Baby Shower

Cupcakes are very in. Mind you, they were last year, now I've heard macaroons are the new thing. But I don't really mind, I fancied making cupcakes. And if you enjoy making and eating something, I don't believe it can come out of fashion.

I decided on carrot cake cupcakes as they can stay very moist for a long time.

This is what I needed as I had to make the cupcakes the day before the baby shower. Making carrot cake is pretty straightforward and easy. The real challenge was what decoration to choose and how to achieve it.

So first, let's start make the cupcakes themselves and be done with them.

Now, what about the decoration? I looked at all kinds of icing, ganaches, accessories, etc... But I had to keep in mind that the occasion is a baby shower for a little girl. And the weather is all summery which invites sunny colors, flowers, etc... I eventually settled on butter icing. First of all because it seemed easy to make! And easy to color the way I want. I did a baby pink, a baby blue and a purple batch. Later I made a yellow one as well.

And little decorations to adorn the icing, sugar flowers, silver sugar balls, and little green leaves that I made out of marzipan.

I never piped icing before, it was very tricky indeed! But it was very enjoyable and I will definitely do it again. I have been bitten by the cake decorating bug!

Here are the finished products!

Cake Making and Decorating

As you can see from the description of my blog, I love cooking, quilting and crafts of all kinds. I tried some cake decorating and I absolutely loved it.

I want to make something special for my parents' 30th anniversary and the fact that it was gonna coincide with their holidays here in Ireland made things easier.

I had help from a friend, Betty, who is as well a professional baker, specialized in beautiful celebration cakes : wedding, engagement, etc... Despite having a broken hand, she helped me make the most beautiful cake for my parents' anniversary! It wasn't a too complicated cake by all means, but because it was my first one, it still took me 4 hours to decorate it only! I was exhausted by the end of it, but boy was I happy! And the result was worth the effort.